Tag: Horror
One Missed Pod #31: OCCULT (2009)
In the latest episode of One Missed Pod, Kelly and Zack sit down to talk about Kōji Shiraishi's found-footage horror film Occult from 2009.
The...
One Missed Pod #30: CURSED (2004)
Don't look now, it's another episode of One Missed Pod! This week Zack and Kelly are watching the 2004 horror film by Yoshihiro Hoshino,...
One Missed Pod #29: DRACULA: SOVEREIGN OF THE DAMNED (1980) with guest Brett the...
On today’s episode of One Missed Pod, Zack and Kelly are joined by Brett der Wiese, who had previously guested on the Wicked City and...
One Missed Pod #26: DARK WATER (2002)
In a new episode of One Missed Pod, Kelly and Zack sit down to talk about Dark Water (2002). The film was directed by...
One Missed Pod #25: VENGEANCE IS MINE (1979)
In a new episode of One Missed Pod, Zack and Kelly discuss Shohei Imamura's 1979 true-crime serial killer thriller, Vengeance is Mine. Anchored by...
One Missed Pod 24: AUDITION (1999)
One Missed Pod is back! This week Zack and Kelly are talking about the Takashi Miike J-horror modern classic Audition (1999). The two discuss...
The Absurd Punk Energy of PSYCHO GOREMAN (2020)
Tokusatsu has a wide influence and it is never more clear how wide-reaching it is than when you see a film like Psycho Goreman...
Explosive Cruelty in THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977)
“The first monster that must frighten you is the filmmaker himself”
—Wes Craven
In the earliest days of my horror movie explorations, there were a handful...
Facing the Darkness in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
Every movie-lover, at their core, has a small collective of films and viewing experiences that define them. Films that forever altered their path in...
Fear Academy – Horror! The Definitive Companion to the Most Terrifying Movies Ever Made...
Welcome back Scream Scholars!
The last time the academy met we looked at Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror and found it to be a rather...
One Missed Pod 021: NOROI: THE CURSE (2005) with special guest Rachel Bolton
In this week's One Missed Pod, Kelly and Zack are joined by Scriptophobic writer Rachel Bolton to discuss Koji Shiraishi's Noroi: The Curse, a...
The Horror of ‘the Curse’ in GINGER SNAPS (2000)
Werewolf movies are often defined by their transformation sequences. They can live and die in those handful of seconds when the human form is...
Don’t Disrespect Halloween Tradition in TRICK ‘R TREAT (2007)
By the time I finally sat down and watched Trick ‘r Treat (2007), I had been living in hyped anticipation for it for close to two years....
HALLOWEEN 3 (1982) and the Appeal of the Standalone Sequel
The first time my young, horror adverse mind even considered the Halloween franchise was over a decade before I would ever see even a...
Michael Myers Loses His Head in HALLOWEEN H20 (1998)
The young woman at the ticket counter smiled politely as my mom handed over the money for the tickets. She didn’t ask questions— she didn’t...
One Missed Pod 017: SPIRAL (1998) and RING 2 (1999) with special guest Paul...
This week's episode was originally going to be 1998's Spiral with Andrew Roebuck but due to a medical emergency, the discussion on George Iida's...
One Missed Pod 015: HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN (1969)
This week One Missed Pod watches 1969's Horrors of Malformed Men, a trip of a film that inspires discussions on gruesomeness, deformity, Japanese pinku...
An Eye for Detail in THE TERMINATOR (1984)
I suppose I knew Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) was a sequel, but for all intents and purposes in my eight-year-old mind, that was definitively...
THIRTEEN GHOSTS (2001) and a Lawyer Split in Two
As the decade shifted and the 90s became the 2000s, my taste in movies was shifting too. I was in high school then, taking...
The Mystical Revenge of the Mighty ORCA (1977)
Humans have the capacity for great evil. Oftentimes the public is complicit in this cruelty without their knowledge. One of the cruelest things we...
The Queen Attacks in THE FACULTY (1998)
As a high school student in the late 90s and early 2000s who was only peripherally aware of horror, even I knew the name...
One Missed Pod 009: JU-ON: ORIGINS episodes 1-3
Tune into a new episode of One Missed Pod and listen in as Zack Long and Kelly Warner take you on an in-depth, extra...
The Butchered Remains of CHERRY FALLS (2000)
Much like the seemingly indestructible nature of their antagonists, the slasher sub-genre has a way of resurrecting itself every generation to terrorize a new...
Finding the Killer Shark Slasher Movie in JAWS 2 (1978)
I avoided the Jaws sequels for many years before I finally succumbed to the inevitable franchise marathon that lies in wait for all horror...
One Missed Pod 006: PULSE (2001)
This week the topic of discussion is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse (2001, AKA Kairo), a movie that is equal parts about a ghost apocalypse and...